Mortality rates across 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels among adults with and without estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min/1.73 m2: the third national health and nutrition examination survey

Holly KramerDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 7:e47458. 2012

Increasing body mass index and obesity in the incident ESRD population

..This review explores potential environmental and genetic reasons for differences in the manifestation of insulin resistance across racial/ethnic groups and highlights several promising areas for further study. ..

..Caloric intake itself may also affect CKD risk. This may be due to the influence of caloric intake on sirtuin1, which modulates adiponectin gene expression and nitric oxide bioavailability...

Mortality rates across 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels among adults with and without estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min/1.73 m2: the third national health and nutrition examination survey

Holly KramerDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 7:e47458. 2012

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Increasing body mass index and obesity in the incident ESRD population

..As a result of the survival advantage associated with obesity and decreased likelihood for transplantation, these trends most likely will influence the total number of patients who receive dialysis in the next decade...

..Muscle mass is not a major determinant of serum cystatin C levels, and its use to estimate GFR may lead to more congruent estimates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) across gender and racial/ethnic groups...

Obesity and albuminuria among adults with type 2 diabetes: the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Study

..Most previous studies investigating the association between ethnicity and hypertension focused on differences between African Americans and whites and did not include other racial/ethnic groups such as Chinese or Hispanics...

..Similar results were noted in MESA participants with and without DM. In conclusion, higher UAE, including levels below microalbuminuria, may reflect the presence of subclinical CVD among adults without established CVD...

..Addition of daclizumab and MMF to a tacrolimus-based immunosuppressive regimen decreased the incidence of acute rejection episodes without increasing any adverse events in our lung transplantation population...

..The interrelationship of REE with sympathetic tone, transmembrane ion exchange, or other metabolic processes that determine energy costs at rest could provide physiological explanations for this observation...

..These findings initiated much research on race as a primary biological determinant of obesity and energy expenditure as a potential pathway. Race is a difficult construct to use in biomedical research...

..Therefore, even though the individual risk for developing obesity GS is low, the cumulative impact of obesity on the public health burden of CKD is likely to be large because of its huge prevalence...

Hypertension treatment and control in five European countries, Canada, and the United States

..Low treatment and control rates in Europe, combined with a higher prevalence of hypertension, could contribute to a higher burden of cardiovascular disease risk attributable to elevated blood pressure compared with that in North America...

Association of mild to moderate kidney dysfunction and coronary calcification